AI & Machine Learning Specialist (Digital Health)

Location: Kampala, Uganda, with national and regional travel as required. Candidates must have current work authorization in Uganda; visa sponsorship is not available.

Company

hirify.global is a global consulting and implementation company delivering technology-enabled solutions for governments, businesses, investors, and communities across more than 50 countries.

What you will do

• Support the Ministry of Health in developing an AI implementation framework covering use-case intake, risk classification, data governance, validation, approvals, monitoring, and escalation.
• Design, develop, validate, and document approved AI use cases, including DHIS2 data-entry anomaly detection and acoustic screening for respiratory disease.
• Collaborate with data engineering, interoperability, cybersecurity, clinical, and program teams on approved data sources, secure environments, and documented pipelines.
• Establish procedures for model development, testing, evaluation, bias assessment, performance monitoring, versioning, and retraining.
• Support human oversight, privacy protection, auditability, user testing, workflow integration, training, and post-deployment monitoring.
• Document technical methods and model limitations while building responsible AI capabilities within MOH and Ugandan technical teams.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in data science, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, biomedical engineering, health informatics, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of experience in machine learning, data science, predictive analytics, or AI product development.
• Skills in Python, machine learning frameworks, model evaluation, data engineering, and data visualization.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, privacy, bias assessment, human-centered design, and model monitoring.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholder engagement, and English communication skills.
• Experience in health, public health, or low-resource settings is strongly preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with the Ministry of Health and Ugandan institutions on government-owned digital health systems.
• Contribute to a project focused on responsible AI, health data governance, cybersecurity, and interoperable digital health infrastructure.
• Support progressive transfer of technical capability to government and national technical teams.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and the position may close once a suitable candidate is found.

Hiring process

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• Successful candidates will complete safeguarding-focused interviews and enhanced due diligence.